Post #26294 by Turbogod on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 11:55 AM

Got this off of FARK. That's where it says this is in Scotland.
H'ANGUS THE MONKEY HUMILIATED POLITICIAN

16:00 - 12 March 2003

Patrice is not the first person to try and throw a banana skin under the feet of mainstream politicians. Last year football club mascot H'Angus the Monkey caused a sensation by being elected as Mayor of Hartlepool.

The seven-foot fury ape humiliated the Labour candidate, who was championed by Peter Mandelson, in a ballot box shocker.

Former call centre manager Stuart Drummond, 28, was amazed to wake up in charge of a council budget of more than £1 million.

The monkey mayor, who lives with his mum, pocketed a £53,000 a year salary.

He ran on a manifesto of giving free bananas to Hartlepool's schoolchildren.

At his first council meeting the simian first citizen was confronted by a troop of grunting reporters dressed in gorilla suits.

Hartlepool FC adopted the exotic creature as their mascot as townsfolk once famously hanged a shipwrecked monkey - believing him to be a French spy.

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[ Edited by: Turbogod on 2003-03-13 06:14 ]